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Its not such a great job probably as all Canadian truckers spend over 50% of their time in the US, and so it would be impossible to accrue enough Canada days to gain citizenship.

Certain trucking companies work with the gov't foreign worker program as long as they are employed in this Province they should be able to apply & gain PR status, citizenship comes after three years.

Work outside of canada for a canadian company counts for PR purposes, but as an expert taking money for this kind of thing I would have expected you to know that it does not count for citizenship.

I think it would count if the work was for the Canadian government.

I stand corrected, my apologies for this. Just to say that some trucking companies do run in Canada only

True, but this is trucking we are talking about, and I suspect that even if you are moving stuff for the government, as a subcontractor it doesnt count. The majority of government jobs seem to be only available to citizens anyway, so its kind of a moot point

The majority of government jobs (fed and prov) seem to be only available to Canadian citizens already working permanently for the government!

The truckers the PNPs are looking for are all long haul and involves a lot of time in the USA. That is a lot of days out of Canada. The Canada only ones are a dream and if they do exist the Canadian drivers want those jobs. Any new driver coming to Canada is going to be long haul and must be eligible to enter the USA, and WILL spend most of the time there....because that's where the loads come or go to, cheaper fuel and more freeways. Even East-West traffic tends to go US freeway rather than Hwy 1.

Most new PRs want citizenship after 3 years, truckers will not get it. That's why the provinces are having a hard time recruiting, well maybe not recruiting, but keeping drivers. Most are recruited and then find its a free country and they can find another job that allows them to stay home.

Anybody know of companies looking fro G licence drivers for runs to USA?

Also with an AZ how likely is it that I will get a load from Toronto to California?


Hope someone can help

Well, folks have to disappoint you but Canadian only jobs exist and they are crying out for drivers.

Try these people


http://www.transx.com/

http://www.reimerexpress.com/

http://www.bisontransport.com/index.htm

http://www.bigfreight.com/

The difference between a landed Resident and a citizen is what for the honest amongst us?

Besides all of that

on this site http://www.canlii.org/ca/cas/fct/1999/1999fct10606.html

You can see a guy was allowed to count his days as he was supporting his family whilst out of the country.

See judges resaon for allowing him to stay.

The defendant arrived in Canada with his wife and children on November 25, 1993. When he made his citizenship application on May 20, 1997, less than four years after his arrival, he stated in his application that he had been absent from Canada for a period of 577 days on business trips to his country of origin, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries. The citizenship judge considered that the defendant met the residence criterion laid down in s. 5(1)(c) of the Citizenship Act, after stating the following reasons:

[TRANSLATION]
I consider, after reviewing the documents in the record and hearing the applicant's testimony, that the applicant left Canada on account of the fact that he could not find work here in his profession and was required to work to support his wife, who is a homemaker, and his other children, who are students. His children are Canadian citizens and in my view his links with Canada are such that he meets the provisions of s. 5(1)(c) of the Act.


I know this guy didn't qualify for citizenship on appeal but that's because he lied about his time out of the country.

So if your worried search the site for precedents.

Just read this on http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/irpa/fs-residents.html


OBLIGATIONS

Permanent residents comply with residency obligations if they accumulate two years of physical presence in Canada in every five-year period. If they are outside of Canada for extended periods of time, they can accumulate residency days if they are:

accompanying a Canadian spouse or common-law partner, or are a child accompanying a parent;
employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business or the Public Service of Canada; or
the accompanying spouse, common-law partner or child of a permanent resident who is outside Canada and who is employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business or the Public Service of Canada.

So Truckers time out of the country may not be a problem at ALL.

What about these people, http://www.m-o.com/home.asp, I expect they employ people who mainly work in Canada.